Gilded age

The Gilded Age

By Deidrawils

  • Mark Twain Publishes The Gilded Age

    Mark Twain Publishes The Gilded Age
    Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner publish The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, a satire of contemporary greed and corruption, coining the label for the period that is now commonly applied to the second half of the 19th century.

  • Alexander Graham Bell Invents Telephone

    Alexander Graham Bell Invents Telephone
    Inventor Alexander Graham Bell successfully transmits a human voice over a wire. The telephone will revolutionize personal and business communication.